Re: [Pen-l] California Fiscal Bait and Switch

[Jim Devine <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx>]

me:
>> in addition, rising house prices and assiduous property assessors
>> (trying to raise revenue for the financially-strapped state and local
>> governments) led to soaring tax assessments, which squeezed a lot of
>> home-owners whose incomes were not rising as quickly (e.g.,
>> pensioners). This helped form a largely suburban base for the "tax
>> revolt," which was exploited to the max by demagogues such as Howard
>> Jarvis.

Doyle:
> This is the point given to me by otherwise left leaning working class people
> I know.  They needed relief from higher and higher taxes on their home.  I
> figured that was shooting themselves in the foot, but they wouldn't listen
> to that.

yes, the problem of the property tax squeeze on incomes affected
working class home-owners, putting them in a situation where
short-term survival conflicted with broader, more long-term,
interests.

Was it Engels who opposed the idea of workers owning houses because it
would push them to think in more bourgeois terms?
-- 
Jim Devine / "If heart-aches were commercials, we'd all be on TV." -- John Prine
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